Blog → Timewarp tales and some reality TV observations

Hello! And a very Happy New Year to all the last.fm users and readers! I hope that 2007 will be a fantastic year. Health, happiness, love, laughter, all the good things in the world... :) Lots of good music! Lots and lots of good music...

(New Year's Resolutions still intact: 2! Yaaay!
New Year's Resolutions not intact: 1! But I have an excuse, whine! But there are no excuses... Be strong - neverrr agaaain!! Etc... ;) )

Music! I am still rather obsessed with shoegaze music! In my world, it is not 2007 but 1991... (There IS new music around? Wha-aaa-aaat?!! I have no idea what is popular right now you know. I saw Egg sing along to a song by The Killers on the "This Life" reunion special earlier this week. I have heard of The Killers, and heard some of their songs, but I could not sing along to a Killers song! In fact, I don't know if I'd recognise the lead singer Brandon Flowers if I saw him in the street... He could some and sit next to me and chances are I could not identify him. And The Killers are one of the biggest bands around, yes?) (Do I READ the "Q" magazine I buy every month?) (I blame this on quite a lot of things, you know! I need to listen to more 'music of today'! But I am becoming increasingly more 'crabby' with age. I am. ;) One band, who I will not name, not that they are likely to be reading, etc, who are very popular, just leave me, well, not 'cold'... I think they are very derivative. I just do NOT get it. They are just the band who are springing to my mind right now... And they have the rave reviews - I DO read the music reviews, then - and I think, uhhh? I am patently missing something! I am stuck in a timewarp, in an eighties/early nineties - with a touch of late nineties, too, I guess! - timewarp! Or maybe I am *whisper* growing 'out' of things somewhat... Yeah, something to contemplate... )

I am loving Ride! (I have written about Slowdive lots, and I am still absolutely loving them to pieces... How gorgeous is the song Brighter? And then there's "Celia's Dream"... I love both of the "Just for a Day"/"Souvlaki" albums. Love them! And I'm going to investigate Mojave 3 too. I'm looking forward to it... ) I have played the song "Taste" over and over again the last few days... (My Audioscrobbler rolls its eyes, adopts the bored pose - again?!! ;) ) I saw the video to this song on one of the vintage "Chart Show" repeats (what a GENIUS idea to show "Chart Show" repeats! An exceptional, amazing idea!) and that has kinda triggered my love affair with this song somewhat. To think I didn't really like Ride when I first heard them (it was "Leave Them All Behind", and I did not like the song... And now I just can't get enough.) (Oooh! Depeche Mode! Well, I just can't get enough of DM! Indeed! ;) ).

Then there's Chapterhouse. I saw the video to their song "Mesmerise" on YouTube this week. I kinda regretted having eaten too much before watching it. (My fault, not their fault! All the water - the video is filmed in a pool, with the band playing in a swimming pool, and some to my eyes "This Life"-style camera angles... I'm not the best sea-traveller anyway, and to see all that water like that... ;) ) I have also been playing a lot of Chapterhouse this week. (The "Whirlpool" album is really good! Really good... )

Who else? Watching singing reality show "Just The Two Of Us" has made me want to look like Sarah Brightman! She is very beautiful... (I would also like to sing like Sarah Brightman. ;) Which should I ask for first? I musn't be 'greedy', you know... ) I know reality TV doesn't 'always' get the best publicity (and I understand why - I can't stand a lot of it) but this show has made me want to listen to Sarah Brightman - would I have considered listening to her music before? I listened to some of an Andrea Bocelli album just before Christmas. So I 'am' listening to different music, then... :)

Also on this reality show: Jocelyn Brown is competing with an actor from "EastEnders" (a show I haven't watched for many years). They sang the song "Always There" last night. "Always There"! (Again, 1991... ) How much do I love this song? I love it thiiiiiis much! (And how I wish I had the vocabulary of a "Q" journalist, sigh... )

Jo O'Meara (former S Club 7) and Ian "H" Watkins (former Steps) (and Leo Sayer) (and Donny Tourette from the band Towers of London - I'd not really heard of them before, oh no, it's Lil' Miss Timewarp here) are over on "Celebrity Big Brother". (Although Mr. Tourette has quit, not wanting to be a servant to Jade Goody and her family. He jumped over the compound wall, away from that house forever... ) I warmed to Jo lots after her opening VT - she loves dogs (like me), she seemed/seems 'nice'... (And I can imagine it's tough going from a global pop band like that to, well, 'normality'? Whatever 'that' is... ) Ian Watkins seems like a nice guy too, ditto Leo Sayer (who seems very chirpy - a very positive guy! That's nice to see... ). But I haven't been watching it that much. Not really! Honestly... ;)

(I wasn't so much of a Steps person - I did love their song "Heartbeat" though! I might have a look for the video on YouTube later! That Christmas theme - awww... But S Club were something of a pop favourite of mine... I even, errm, watched their TV show a little bit! I don't think I watched it that much... )

Now I'm going to 'reach' for the post button (or maybe 'preview'? Or maybe I should 'reach' for the delete button? Aargh!). Many thanks to anyone who has read this (wow... You deserve medals, flowers, chocolates, everything... :) ) and best wishes to all,
F xxx

PS. That's a great song! REACH for the stars!! Climb every mountain higher...
PPS. Now, 'reach' for that post button woman...